A new white paper presented to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence carves out an ‘evolving mission’ for Homeland Security that moves away from fighting terrorism and towards growing a vast domestic intelligence apparatus that would expand integration with local/state agencies and private-public partnerships already underway via regional fusion centers.

Significantly, it puts on paper and into the Congressional record a proposed transition from outwardly dealing with the threats posed by terrorism towards intelligence gathering “focused on more specific homeward-focused areas.” That is, the homegrown, domestic threats we’ve heard so much about from Big Sis already.

In short, it confirms the intentions of key insiders– including former NSA/CIA head Michael Hayden, former Rep. Jane Harmon, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, 9/11 Commissioners Philip Zelikow and Richard Ben-Viniste, former National Security Advisor Samuel Berger and others– to flesh out a plan we have already seen developing from an outside perspective– namely, to build a domestic Stasi-like force to takeover, monitor and control the population.

Moreover, the media has reported on this changed mission– towards the full spectrum domination of the people under a patently-fascist framework– with the same calm as the weekly weather forecast.

LOCALIZED INTELLIGENCE: HIRING POLICE & BOWING TO PRIVATE INTERESTS

Achieving this new aim includes co-opting local law enforcement and other regional agencies.

“As the threat grows more localized,” the report reads, “the federal government’s need to train, and even staff, local agencies, such as major city police departments, will grow.”

That’s right, the feds want to oversee the hiring of your local police.

Fusion Centers, now spread across the nation, have already infected police agencies and local governments with a federalization takeover mentality. A Dec. 2010 Aspen Homeland Security Group report [.pdf], quoting the Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department, recommends that “every mayor and governor of a major city in the country should have to attend a DHS-sponsored emergency management course where various scenarios – like hurricanes, levy breaks, and explosions – are exercised.”

But directing local police departments, mayors and governors is only the beginning. Indeed, the Aspen group envisions the ‘foundation for a separate DHS intelligence mission’ by building upon ‘decentralized’ partnerships with the private sector as well.

The bloated umbrella agency aims to lean on its ties with the hospitality (hotel), security and transportation industries, among others, as well. Already, Homeland Security conducts background checks on many security guards working with ‘critical infrastructure,’ and clearly, it aims to expand the use of quasi-government groups like InfraGard and other private snitch networks. Ultimately, all employment would be subject to federal background checks and security clearances.

Private interests should even shape Homeland Security priorities, according to the report: “different private sectors in the United States, from the hospitality industry to transportation, should drive requirements for DHS.”

ABANDONING THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM

As unbelievable as it sounds, DHS says other agencies can handle the all-encompassing threat of terrorism that was used to justify the super-agency’s own existence and powers.

“There are enough agencies pursuing the terrorist adversary to allow DHS to build a new analytic foundation that emphasizes data, analytic questions, and customer groups that are not the focus for other agencies,” the report states.

And funding should be cut from terrorism-focused areas:

“Analysis that helps private-sector partners better understand how to mitigate threats to infrastructure, for example, should win more resourcing than a focus on all-source analysis of general threats, such as work on assessing the perpetrators of attacks. Conversely, all-source analysis of terrorist groups and general terrorist trends should remain the domain of other intelligence agencies.”

Instead, the “national security experts” who’ve brought us naked body scanners, checkpoints on highways, streets, airports, bus & train stations, and who have projected the homegrown terror threat into the theaters of private hotels, shopping malls and sports stadiums, are again expanding the bureaucratic growth of tyranny by infiltrating areas traditionally spared from federal intrusion.

Beware The Ides of March in 2012: The Double Blow of Economic Collapse And World War Is Coming

Saman MohammadiPrisonplanet.comFebruary 4, 2012

“Ruin from Man is most conceal’d when nearAnd sends the dreadful Tidings in the Blow.” – Edward Young, Night Thoughts.

The world economy is on the brink of a crisis that will end modern civilization as we know it.

Nations, or I should say banking colonies, will collapse left and right. Global poverty and unemployment rates have risen to levels that are socially and economically unmanageable under the current global financial, political, and bureaucratic system which favours the few at the expense of the many.

It is fitting that the collapse of Western Civilization is beginning in its ancient cradle, Greece. This great nation has fallen to the banksters who are behind the despotic new world order.

Some people believe a Greek default and a collapsing global economy is a good and beneficial development for the planet, especially anti-growth radicals in elite and new age circles who are committed to the view that the planet is under attack from economic development and modern industrialization.

They don’t mind seeing nations like Greece go under. They justify their economic warfare and financial looting by saying the destruction of national economies is done for the sake of the environment. But the real reason for bankrupting nations such as Greece and America is to consolidate political power and create a global authoritarian police state.

Nations that are not in the Banksters’ sphere of political and economic influence like Libya are overthrown and bombed, and nations that are like America are pillaged and burned to the point of collapse.

Engineering A “Clash of Civilizations” To Destroy The Global Economy, Save The Environment, Reduce The World Population, And Maintain The Global Status Quo

The anti-growth Western elites want a third world war erupt in the Middle East, with Israel and the forces of the West on one side, and Iran and the forces of Islam on the other side. They believe that the world economy is a threat to the global environment and that creating a divine “Clash of Civilizations” is a solution to this mega problem because it will lead to a catastrophic world war and the destruction of the world economy.

This “Clash of Civilizations” has been set up between the West and Islam in such a way that both civilizations will be destroyed by the end of the epic struggle, and pave the way for a new, global, post-industrial civilization to emerge out of the shadows and out of the ruins.

But in order for there to be a mythical “Clash of Civilizations,” the globalists in Washington must first create the Islamic Ummah, with Islamic fundamentalists in power throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, from Egypt to Iran, Libya to Afghanistan.

The process of Islamisation is not spontaneous, but generated by British and American intelligence agencies. Their aim is to put culturally backward and power-hungry theocratic thieves in charge in Muslim societies, rather than allow secular and nationalist democracies to develop and modernize the Islamic world.

Any prominent Muslim leader in the Middle East who is against the forces of Islamic fundamentalism, and who has the power to shift Western popular perceptions about the East, is pushed out of the picture by the globalist owned CIA and MI6. This is what happened to the legendary Afghan Mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was planning a democratic future for his war-torn country but was murdered by CIA trained Al-Qaeda terrorists on September 9, 2001.

Massoud was a real warrior and heroic revolutionary, unlike the villainous snake and coward Khomeini, who was supported by the MI6 and CIA.

What occupies the minds of the Illuminati elites in America, England, Israel, and Iran is creating a global dictatorship out of the fires of the coming great clash between the two worlds, not the survival of the countries that they rule over.

The belief that America’s rulers won’t let Iran close the Strait of Hormuz because that act would turn off the world economy implies that America’s rulers actually care about the world economy. But they don’t. They want America’s economy and the world economy to collapse. Privately, they will welcome a closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but publicly they’ll scream like crazy and pretend to defend the interests of the world economy.

Also, the belief that Iran won’t use all its means to shut down the Strait of Hormuz because that would be an act of national suicide is grounded in the false understanding of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s goals and methods.

The roots of the regime are in shadowy soil of Western intelligence agencies. The shadow CIA and shadow Mossad have cooperated with Islamist fanatics in Iran since 1953 when they were called on to agitate in the streets against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh.

When the Shah’s time had come to an end in 1979, the CIA and MI6 manipulators brought in the same Islamic fundamentalists to rule Iran for them while posing on the wold stage as antagonistic and ideological rivals. Khomeini’s rise to power as Iran’s Supreme Leader assured the success of the Globalist/Illuminati agenda.

The elite magicians of the West have a long view of history. They knew the Soviet Union would fall one day so they made preparations for that event in the geopolitical and ideological terrain.

It was no accident that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islamic fundamentalism as represented by Iran and international terrorism as represented by various Islamic groups came to replace the Soviet Union as “The Enemy.”

Totalitarian States Are At War, Not Nations And Peoples

On Friday, February 3, 2012, Washington’s Blog wrote in a headline: “Less than One-Fifth of All Americans Favor Military or Covert Action Against Iran … Less than Half of Israelis Want to Attack Iran, and 65% Want the Entire Middle East – Including Israel – to be a Nuclear-Free Zone.”

The people of America, Israel, and Iran are sick and tired of wars. Without false flag attacks like 9/11 and ritualistic chants like “Death to America,” the fever of war would not exist.

In the current state of human affairs, the totalitarian doctors of the Total War State first spread the fever of war throughout society and then they sell the medicine. It is an evil, barbaric, and psychopathic practice.

Crooked elites want wars for obvious reasons. War gives them extra powers and extra profits, and keeps the people off their backs. War means chaos, and chaos leads to control. Chaos is the name of the age-old political game.

“The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, ‘How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?’ We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake. It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man’s perception,–”It is no proof of a man’s understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,–this is the mark and character of intelligence.” In the book I read, the good thought returns to me, as every truth will, the image of the whole soul. To the bad thought which I find in it, the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away. We are wiser than we know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Oversoul.

The incredible rise of Ron Paul’s popularity despite the media conspiracy against him as well as the growing influence of the global alternative media are proof that the American mass media has become an ineffective mind control tool.

The murderous and traitorous owners of Homeland Security Fascism who staged the tragic 9/11 events know very well that the political awakening of the American people represents the biggest threat to their existence. The growing public awareness of deceptions and crimes by the bankster dominated U.S. government is causing a volcanic political and psychological rift between the American people and the globalist oligarchs.

The rift is exposing a systemic crisis within American society, which has come about after decades of acts of injustice, murder, treason, and state terrorism against the American people by the hijacked American government.

There’s no way to put the genie of revolution and restoration back in the bottle of stability and security. The U.S. ruling class cannot crush and kill the rebirth of the American spirit of liberty because the people are wide awake now, unlike in the 1960s when JFK, RFK, and MLK were taken from America by the terrorists in the CIA/FBI.

But the cannibalistic U.S. ruling class is not impotent and weak. It is trying everything in its power to revive the credibility of the war on terror, convince the American people that conspiracy theorists are wrong, and keep their illegal monopoly over money creation, the media, and the political process.

The banking oligarchs and war lobbies think they can secure their control over the domestic agenda in America as well as the global agenda by engineering a war with Iran through false flag terrorism.

Given the fact that the US and Israel are both yearning for a casus belli to launch an attack on Iran, added to recent history where a staged provocation was considered, and in addition to the innumerable examples of false flags overseen by the Obama administration alone, the threat of staged terror has never been greater.

The American public are being bombarded with the same propaganda in two similar but separate formats, one that Iran is looking to launch a terror attack on U.S. soil, and two that domestic extremists also pose a violent threat.

However, as recent history tells us, it is the government itself which routinely stages and facilitates violent events in pursuit of its political objectives, therefore the same interests should be the number one suspects if and when violent events occur.

US intelligence officials last week upped the rhetoric against Iran during congressional testimony by claiming that Tehran is prepared to launch reprisal attacks inside the United States.

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. cited the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil as a sign that, “Some Iranian officials — probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime.”

As we documented at the time, according to retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, no information concerning the supposed plot even existed within FBI channels, strongly suggesting the story was manufactured by the Obama administration. The New York Times also reported that the dubious nature of the plot caused “a wave of puzzlement and skepticism from some foreign leaders and outside experts.”

Despite the sordid history of lies that were manufactured about weapons of mass destruction, Niger yellowcake and dodgy dossiers to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, we’re seeing history repeat itself as the US seeks to exploit another artificial crisis as a pretext to back the Israeli attack on Iran.

Numerous examples since Obama took office illustrate how his administration, and the intelligence agencies that surround it, are by no means reticent to brazenly lie and stage events for political purposes.

Despite the Obama administration’s best efforts to characterize Operation Fast and Furious, an ATF program that sought to put U.S.-based firearms into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers, as little more than a ‘screw up’, the most damning evidence strongly indicates that the whole operation was in fact an attempt to launch a false flag assault on the second amendment rights of the American people.

Obama himself told gun control advocate Sarah Brady last year that his administration was working “under the radar” to sneak attack the second amendment, just months before the Fast and Furious scandal leaked, and at the same time as administration officials were blaming violence in Mexico on the second amendment, when in reality the administration itself was responsible for arming the drug cartels.

A further example of a false flag attempt under the current administration involves the Christmas Day underwear bomber, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, who was helped through security, despite him being on a terror watchlist with no passport, by a well dressed Indian man, on Christmas Day 2009.

It later emerged that the State Department was ordered not to revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa by “federal counterterrorism officials” even though the accused bomber had known terrorist ties, in addition to the fact that his own father had warned U.S. intelligence officials of the threat posed by Abdulmutallab a month before the attempted attack.

It is crystal clear that the gigantic anti-terror apparatus itself, created in the aftermath of 9/11, is now being used against the American people, with citizens being trained to spy on each other under the auspices of Homeland Security’s See Something, Say Something campaign. To illustrate the absurdity of how far this reaches, hot dog sellers at the recent Super Bowl were trained by the TSA to spot terrorists.

Both the DHS and the FBI are also characterizing mundane behavior, such as paying for a cup of coffee with cash, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application, all as indicators of terrorist activity.

The environment of fear and paranoia that has been created as a result of all this makes fertile ground for the government to stage a crisis or manufacture an emergency situation that will be used to rally the American people around a number of different domestic and geopolitical agendas.

On January 31, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security’s Behavioral Science Division pointed to the following as indicators of potential terrorism (please note – as you review the list – that some indicators are conservative, some are liberal and some are bipartisan):

* “Reverent of individual liberty”

* “Anti-nuclear”

* “Believe in conspiracy theories”

* “A belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack”

With the announcement that 30,000 drones are expected to fill American skies within ten years, the U.S. government has officially declared war on the American people, turning to technology normally used to hunt down insurgents abroad as the whole arsenal of the war on terror is re-focused domestically.

“The Federation Aviation Administration said up to 30,000 drones could be in airspace shared with airliners carrying passengers,” reports UPI.

Once signed by president Obama, the FAA Reauthorization Act allows for the FAA to permit the use of drones and develop regulations for testing and licensing by 2015.

Some types of surveillance drones are already being used by police departments across the country, including in Montgomery County, Texas, where the Department of Homeland Security recently gave the go-ahead for law enforcement in the United States to deploy the ShadowHawk mini drone drone helicopter that has the ability to taze suspects from above as well as carrying 12-gauge shotguns and grenade launchers.

US law enforcement bodies are already using drone technology to spy on Americans. In December, a Predator B drone was called in to conduct surveillance over a family farm in North Dakota as part of a SWAT raid on the Brossart family, who were suspects in the egregious crime of stealing six missing cows. Local police in this one area have already used the drone on two dozen occasions since June last year.

The DHS also recently announced a plan to spend up to $50 million dollars on a spy system that has been used to hunt insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purposes of “emergency and non-emergency incidents” within the United States.

While preparing the use of surveillance drones against Americans, the U.S. government is also keen to characterize a myriad of behaviors and activities, no matter how normal or mundane, as potential indicators of terrorism, encouraging citizens to spy on each other in a chilling throwback to how people were hired as informants under the East German Stasi.

As part of its Communities Against Terrorism program, the FBI is encouraging business owners from across the spectrum to spy on their customers.

The DHS has also released numerous PSAs that depict routine activities as potential signs of terrorism, including using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.

The federal agency attracted much derision last week when it announced that Super Bowl vendors, including hot dog sellers, had been trained to spot terrorists under the First Observer program.Even more chilling, the feds have also begun to characterize perfectly legitimate political and economic beliefs as those held by terrorists, effectively denouncing them as thought crimes.

As Reuters reported on Monday, authorities are now treating those who “believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard” as extremists who are a potential violent threat to law enforcement. The DHS has also previously characterized returning veterans, Ron Paul supporters, gold investors, and people who display political bumper stickers as potential domestic terrorists.

All this serves to underscore the fact that the American people have now been targeted as the number one terror threat in the eyes of the authorities. The state has declared war on U.S. citizens. Not only will they be subject to surveillance and intimidation campaigns, but with the recent passage of the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA, the government has afforded itself the power to hold Americans without trial.

Pentagon Says US Citizens Accused Of Supporting Terrorism Can Be Assassinated

Going public with long time secret unconstitutional operations

Steve WatsonPrisonplanet.comFebruary 23, 2012

A high ranking Pentagon lawyer argued Wednesday that US citizens accused of having ties to terror groups can legitimately be targeted for assassination.

In a speech at Yale Law School, Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department general counsel, also said that US courts do not have the right to review such cases, or pass judgment on decisions taken by the Executive branch on such matters.

“Belligerents who also happen to be U.S. citizens do not enjoy immunity where non-citizen belligerents are valid military objectives,” said Johnson.

According to a report in The New York Times, while not discussing detail of last year’s killing of US born Islamist radical Anwar Al-Awlaki, “Johnson invoked a lawsuit filed by Mr. Awlaki’s father before the killing that had sought an injunction against targeting his son, citing with approval a district judge’s decision to dismiss the case and saying that targeting decisions are not suited to court review because they must be made quickly and based on fast-evolving intelligence.”

“Within the executive branch the views and opinions of the lawyers on the president’s national security team are debated and heavily scrutinized, and a legal review of the application of lethal force is the weightiest judgment a lawyer can make,” Johnson said. “And, when these judgments start to become easy, it is time for me to return to private law practice.”

The US government has long operated a policy of targeted killing against so called enemies of the state. However, it is one thing to be carrying out such targeted killings in secret, it is quite another to publicly proclaim such actions as legitimate.

FEMA Puts Out Contract For Emergency Camps to House “Displaced Citizens”

Solicitation calls for camps to be ready for occupancy within 72 hours

Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comMonday, February 27, 2012

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is looking for contractors to construct temporary emergency camps inside the United States which can be ready for occupancy within a 72 hour time period and used to house emergency responders as well as “displaced citizens”.

The National Responder Support Camp contract, posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, calls on contractors to “provide all necessary supervision, professional staff, labor support, material, supplies and equipment as necessary to make a RSC within a disaster-impacted area anywhere within the CONUS (Continental United States) within 72 hours after notification.”

The camps are primarily designed to house emergency responders, but will also be utilized to shelter “displaced citizens,” who will be “given the first opportunities for employment within the camp,” according to the solicitation. The camps will be able to service up to 2,000 people at one time.

As well as natural disasters, the 72-hour camps are designed to deal with terrorist attacks, National Response Framework activities of federal agencies, National Special Security Events, “or any other situation where FEMA or an agency working through FEMA needs a RSC.”

The camps will be secured with fencing and barricades that will also serve to create areas that are “off limits” to certain occupants. Entry to the camp will be controlled through a photo ID system for all occupants and visitors.

Medical treatment facilities, dining facilities, mobile showers and “morale welfare and recreation” facilities are all required as part of the contract.

FEMA’s latest efforts to satisfy the demand for emergency camps represents a continuation of preparations on behalf of the federal government to prepare for civil emergencies and potential social disorder.

In 2006, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root was contracted by Homeland Security to build detention centers designed to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S,” or the rapid development of unspecified “new programs” that would require large numbers of people to be interned.

Last year we received a leaked memo from a state government employee detailing KBR’s efforts to hire subcontractors to provide services required for temporary “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the United States, indicating that many of the camps have now been constructed and are ready for use.

The construction of new detention camps inside the United States has provoked fears that the facilities could also be used to intern American citizens in the aftermath of a national emergency.

Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services.

During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.”

A provision within the National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Obama on New Years Eve, hands the government power to have American citizens arrested and detained without trial.

Obama administration firms up support for state-sponsored assassination

Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comMonday, March 5, 2012

Attorney General Eric Holder will today attempt to justify the Obama administration’s policy of state-sponsored assassination, as he prepares to give a speech explaining how the U.S. government can arbitrarily kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil.

“Holder plans to say in a major speech on Monday at Northwestern University law school in Chicago that lethal force is legal under a Sept. 18, 2001, joint congressional resolution,” reports the Associated Press.

The notion that the White House can target Americans for summary execution by merely claiming that they are associated with terrorism is chilling given the fact that Americans who engage in political activism or even banal behaviors have been characterized as potential terrorists by U.S. authorities.

The White House has asserted the right to carry out state-sponsored assassination anywhere in the world without having to provide any evidence or go through any legal process. The administration merely has to state that the target is a terrorist and it doesn’t matter whether they are an American citizen or not, as we saw in the case of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, who were both killed last year.

During a CBS 60 Minutes interview in January, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed that Obama himself personally approves the policy to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without trial on a case by case basis.

“So it’s the requirement of the administration under the current legal understanding that the president has to make that declaration, not you?” Panetta was asked, to which he replied, “That is correct.”

The administration’s support for state-sponsored assassination without a shred of legal oversight puts into context the worthlessness of an Obama ‘policy directive’ last week that promised the White House would not indefinitely detain American citizens under the National Defense Authorization Act, which Obama signed on New Years Eve.

As we documented at the time, it was the administration itself which demanded the controversial detention without trial provisions of the NDAA be applied to American citizens.

The NDAA defines the entire planet, including America, as a “battlefield,” meaning Americans could also hypothetically be assassinated without any legal process on U.S. soil under the legal framework that has been codified under Obama.

The recent announcement that up to 30,000 drones will be in American skies within ten years, allied to the DHS plan to spend up to $50 million dollars on a spy system that has been used to hunt insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purposes of “emergency and non-emergency incidents” within the United States, makes it clear that Americans are being targeted as terrorists at both home and abroad.

The Cat’s Out of The Bag: Obama Administration And Shadow Government Admit Congress Doesn’t Matter

Saman MohammadiPrisonplanet.comMarch 9, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta admitted to Senator Jeff Sessions that Congress is dust and trash, and that the decision to take the U.S. military to war rests in the hands of unelected international bureaucrats in the United Nations, NATO, and other international organizations.

Basically, Panetta said that he answers to the despotic criminals who are behind the creation of a global dictatorship, not the American people.

This is high treason. This is a global coup d’etat by the international private banksters who created the United Nations based on a series of lies and two fraudulent and unnecessary world wars. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama, and top Pentagon Generals are their agents. They are traitors and state terrorists.

The Pentagon, White House, CIA, and Homeland Security are not loyal to the American people and the U.S. Constitution, but to the criminal global banking cartel. They control a shadow government inside the official American government, which means the Congress is dead weight. Their silence regarding the 9/11 false flag event is proof that they are in the process of killing America, its traditions, its people, and its laws.

Senator Sessions told Panetta: “We spend our time worrying about the UN, the Arab League, NATO, and too little time, in my opinion, worrying about the elected representatives of the United States.” In response, Panetta repeated standard Pentagon talking points. He said America needs “international permission,” to bomb countries, but even the claim of internationalism is a lie and a fraud.

The United Nations is a sham. The UN’s legal authority is merely a veneer used to justify global conquest by the private banksters and other elements of the Western plutocracy. They knock off countries that refuse entry to Western private central banks, and criminal multinational corporations who love fascism and hate capitalism.

America was taken over by the criminal international private banksters in 1913. The Federal Reserve is their creature. These vultures have used the U.S. Military in WWI, WWII, the Cold War, and the War on Terror as their mercenary to consolidate their own power, and create a global authoritarian government.

Since their global political mission is almost complete, these evil parasites are bankrupting America and reducing it to a third world country. They no longer need America to conquer, steal, pillage, and burn down foreign nations.

Now, it is America’s turn to be pillaged, and burned to the ground by the same group of international aristocratic banking families based in London.

The age of “conspiracy theories” and the systematic denial of reality by the shadow state is over. The age of truth has dawned.

The Cat’s Out of The Bag: Obama Administration And Shadow Government Admit Congress Doesn’t Matter

Saman MohammadiPrisonplanet.comMarch 9, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta admitted to Senator Jeff Sessions that Congress is dust and trash, and that the decision to take the U.S. military to war rests in the hands of unelected international bureaucrats in the United Nations, NATO, and other international organizations.

Basically, Panetta said that he answers to the despotic criminals who are behind the creation of a global dictatorship, not the American people.

Until his appointment as CIA director in 2009, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta co-chaired an initiative to regulate U.S. oceans and cede them to United Nations-based international law.

Panetta’s oceans initiative was a key partner of an organization, Citizens for Global Solutions, that promotes world government.

Also, the group’s parent organization, the World Federalist Movement, promotes democratized global institutions with plenary constitutional power. It is a coordinator and member of Responsibility to Protect, the controversial United Nations military doctrine used by Obama as the main justification for U.S. and international airstrikes against Libya.

Until his appointment as CIA director, Panetta co-chaired the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, which is the partner of Citizens for Global Solutions in a push to ratify U.S. laws and regulations governing the seas. Panetta became defense secretary in June, 2011.

The oceans initiative bills itself as a bipartisan, collaborative group that aims to “accelerate the pace of change that results in meaningful ocean policy reform.”

Among its main recommendations is that the U.S. should put its oceans up for regulation to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

That U.N. convention defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world’s oceans, establishing guidelines for businesses, the environment and the management of marine natural resources.

Other recommendations of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative include:

The Administration and Congress should establish a national ocean policy. The Administration and Congress should support regional, ecosystem-based approaches to the management of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes. Congress should strengthen and reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act. Congress should strengthen the Clean Water Act.

The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative Leadership Council includes John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, which is reportedly highly influential in advising the White House on policy. Podesta served as co-chair of Obama’s presidential transition team.

Panetta’s oceans initiative is a key partner of Citizens for Global Solutions, or CGS, which, according to its literature, envisions a “future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone.”

CGS states it works to “build the political will in the United States” to achieve this global vision.

The organization currently works on issues that fall into five general areas: U.S. global engagement; global health and environment; peace and security; international law and justice; and international institutions.

CGS is a member organization and supporter of the World Federalist Movement, which openly seeks a one-world government. The World Federalist Movement considers the CGS to be its U.S. branch.

The movement brings together organizations and individuals that support the establishment of a global federal system of strengthened and democratized global institutions with plenary constitutional power accountable to the citizens of the world and a division of international authority among separate global agencies.

The movement’s headquarters are located near the U.N. building in New York City. A second office is near the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

‘International permission’ trumps Congress?

Panetta, meanwhile, is facing some criticism for statements he made yesterday at a hearing by Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL, regarding the use of international military force without the explicit approval of Congress.

Sessions asked Panetta whether he believes the U.S. “can act without Congress and initiate a No Fly Zone in Syria, without Congressional approval.”

Panetta replied: “Again, our goal would be to seek international permission and we would come to the Congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this, whether or not we would want to get permission from the Congress, I think those are issues I think we would have to discuss as we decide what to do here.”

Panetta repeatedly stressed the need to seek the approval of the international community, including the UN and NATO countries.

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"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

~ Thomas Paine, A Dissertation on the First Principles of Government, 1795

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” – Harry S. Truman.

“I used to say we should take our chances on facing the world without a secret, deadly arm. Now, I say flat out we’ll be safer, and healthier, and stronger if we close down the operations side of the CIA, and keep the National Security Council as a strict advisory office only, without any secret police like the CIA to go out and run operations for them. We need good intelligence but we don’t get it from the CIA machine.” – John Stockwell, “Secret Wars of the CIA,” November 3, 1989.

The assassination of American citizens by the American government did not begin in the Obama and Bush era. The CIA used assassination as a political tool against domestic critics and foreign enemies way before the War on Terror began. By the time of the false flag September 11 attacks, the CIA was thinking about murdering humans wholesale like cattle.

The most famous case of CIA assassinations is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. History changed forever on that day. And it is the undeniable historical truth that powerful elements in the CIA, joined by high-ranking conspirators in the Kennedy administration and Pentagon, killed President Kennedy. To deny this truth is to deny history. And to deny history is to deny America any chance of recovering her status as a free country governed by the rule of law.

The rotten foreign controllers of the CIA have never looked back since they killed the popular American president. How could they? What are they going to say to the American people? It’s too late for sorry. There is no time or space for apologies. So they took the course of all tyrants in history, and claimed absolute power for themselves over the stunted American mind, soul, and heart. They plotted the destruction and collapse of America to make their treason against the U.S. Constitution and American people irreversible.

As a result of its complete ownership of the mainstream American press, the Machiavellian CIA can commit any number of crimes against America, from murdering an American president to orchestrating the greatest act of terrorism on American soil. The shadow CIA, as well as other elements of the U.S. shadow state that arose in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination, feel free to operate ruthlessly and illegally across the planet, murdering anyone who threatens their ill-gotten power.

One of the CIA’s most notorious victims was was journalist Gary Webb who broke the CIA drug running story in the San Jose Mercury News in the mid 1990s. Gary Webb and John F. Kennedy are just two American citizens that we know for sure were killed by the CIA because of their opposition to illegal CIA policies. Many more individuals were probably gunned down by the rogue CIA such as CIA agents Barry Seal.

The CIA’s long-running policy of assassination must be considered in the discussion of the Obama administration’s murder of American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. It’s been confirmed by numerous sources that al-Awlaki was a U.S. governmentasset, which makes the official announcement of his assassination even more suspicious than it already is based on what the Obama administration has told the public.

“What have we allowed ourselves to become? Are we no longer a nation of laws? Have we become instead a nation of men who make secret arrests? Are secret prisons now simply another tool of the federal government law enforcement? Is secret rendition of individuals now permitted, out of misplaced fear? Have we decided that the writ of habeas corpus is not worth defending? Is torture now an acceptable tool for making us safe? Unfortunately, the single answer to all of these questions from the leaders of our country and to many of our citizens appears to be yes.”

America ceased to be America when the CIA killed a democratically elected President, and placed the government in the hands of thieves, traitors, and murderers.

If President John F. Kennedy and other political reformers of the 60s era like Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were not assassinated by the CIA then we would be living in a different, and brighter world. Instead, we live in a world of hell and darkness. Small flashes of light like the rise of Ron Paul cut through the darkness, but the evil forces in Washington remain as murderous as ever.

The bold tyrants who control the CIA, Federal Reserve, White House, and military-industrial complex do not intend to stop killing innocent people, dissidents, and whistleblowers. Their naked murder of American citizens and citizens of other countries is just beginning. They’ve been sharpening the blade of death and conquest in secret all these years. But they decided to expose the awe-inspiring blade under a so-called liberal President because they felt the time was right.

The shadow government quickly exploited the unprecedented popular appeal of the Obama administration by announcing the continuation of radical domestic policies such as assassination of citizens, torture, and secret detention without trial. The 2012 NDAA Act was another step down the road of global despotism. No individual is safe in this new environment, unless he joins the Killers behind the New World Order and forgets that democracy and freedom ever existed.

“Since the National Defense Authorization Act defines the whole of the planet, including the United States, as a “battlefield” in the perpetual war on terror,” writes Paul Joseph Watson, “it doesn’t matter whether Americans are inside the United States or abroad, they are all legitimate targets of the policy of state-sponsored assassination, according to the government’s argument.”

The Obama administration has no authority to kill anybody anywhere for any reason because the war on terror is a fraud, and America is not really in a state of war. In reality, America is in a state of tyranny.

The CIA Killers who killed Americans on September 11, 2001, with the help of the Mossad Killers believe they can kill as many Americans, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Afghans, Iranians, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Lebanese, Somalians, and Yemenis as they want. One hundred thousand dead? Why not one million? Why not ten million? Who the hell is counting? Why not one hundred million? Why not one billion?

You see this beautiful blue and green planet? If the CIA and other government intelligence agencies have their way, this planet will be turned into one big killing field. When the Obama administration and Pentagon talk about a “global battlefield” they mean a global killing zone, a global mass grave, and a global death domain. We are all targets. We are all in the jungle.

POLICE STATE USA: New Obama Executive Order Seizes U.S. Infrastructure and Citizens for Military Preparedness

by Brandon Turbeville

Global Research, March 18, 2012Activist Post - 2012-03-17

In a stunning move, on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order stating that the President and his specifically designated Secretaries now have the authority to commandeer all domestic U.S. resources including food and water. The EO also states that the President and his Secretaries have the authority to seize all transportation, energy, and infrastructure inside the United States as well as forcibly induct/draft American citizens into the military. The EO also contains a vague reference in regards to harnessing American citizens to fulfill “labor requirements” for the purposes of national defense.

Not only that, but the authority claimed inside the EO does not only apply to National Emergencies and times of war. It also applies in peacetime.

The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order exploits the “authority” granted to the President in the Defense Production Act of 1950 in order to assert that virtually every means of human survival is now available for confiscation and control by the President via his and his Secretaries’ whim.

The unconstitutionality of the overwhelming majority of Executive Orders is well established, as well as the illegality of denying citizens their basic Constitutional and human rights, even in the event of a legitimate national emergency. Likewise, it should also be pointed out that, like Obama’s recent Libyan adventure and the foregone conclusion of a Syrian intervention, there is no mention of Congress beyond a minor role of keeping the allegedly co-equal branch of government informed on contextually meaningless developments.

As was mentioned above, the scope of the EO is virtually all-encompassing. For instance, in “Section 201 – Priorities and Allocations Authorities,” the EO explains that the authority for the actions described in the opening paragraph rests with the President but is now delegated to the various Secretaries of the U.S. Federal Government. The list of delegations and the responsibility of the Secretaries as provided in this section are as follows:

(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;

(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;

(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and

(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.

One need only to read the “Definitions” section of the EO in order to clearly see that terms such as “food resources” is an umbrella that includes literally every form of food and food-related product that could in any way be beneficial to human survival.

That being said, “Section 601 – Secretary of Labor” delegates special responsibilities to the Secretary of Labor as it involves not just materials citizens will need for survival, but the actual citizens themselves.

Obviously, the ability of the U.S. government to induct and draft citizens into the military against their will is, although a clear violation of their rights, not an issue considered shocking by its nature of having been invoked so many times in the past. Logically, this “authority” is provided for in this section.

However, what may be shocking is the fact that Section 601 also provides for the mobilization of “labor” for purposes of the national defense. Although some subsections read that evaluations are to be made regarding the “effect and demand of labor utilization,” the implication is that “labor” (meaning American workers) will be considered yet one more resource to be seized for the purposes of “national defense.” The EO reads,

June 29, 1993 Council on Sustainable Development Executive Order 12852 W. J. Clinton

My point is that with each Administration these things are happening and the Patriot Community has a poop fest. This headline was over at Rense.com WTF!Obama Executive Order Removes ALL Rights - America Is DeadAs if Obama can kill America with the stroke of a pen! It is just a ludicrous notion.

Reality looks to me like the power of the internet, programs like AJs, Truth tellers on TV like Judge Napolitano, real lawmen like Sheriffs Arpio and Mack and a host of other things going on are bring these politikooks to a point of desperation.

I'm not saying go back to sleep, I'm saying we are winning and the Bankster Muppets know it.They are quitting their jobs and Obamy has two articles of impeachment against his self.

My point is that with each Administration these things are happening and the Patriot Community has a poop fest.

Gee, you're right.

Disregard all those alarmist articles I posted about the NDAA, because the authors of those articles were obviously overreacting.

As long as we keep blowing sunshine up our collective backside about how we're "winning," we'll have little if anything to fear from these Nazi-style power grabs.

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Denial

Denial is the simplest defense to understand. It is simply the refusal to acknowledge what has, is, or will happen. “My partner didn’t have an affair, but was simply traveling for work a lot.” A related defense is Minimizing. When you minimize you technically accept what happened, but only in a “watered down” form. “Sure, I have been drinking a bit too much lately, but it’s only due to stresses at work; I don’t really have a drinking problem since this is situational and not an inner weakness or something.”

Obama is a puppet of the Banksters, but the office of the president itself is being transformed in to a dictatorial command and control system. Congress has now been told that they are ceremonial, the military is openly training to wage war on the American people during a staged economic collapse!

Quote:As long as we keep blowing sunshine up our collective backside about how we're "winning," we'll have little if anything to fear from these Nazi-style power grabs. End Quote.

Hey Geolibertarian We're on the same team. I appreciate your due diligence here with all the work in research.

What I was getting at: in the early nineties when I became aware of what Clinton was all about.

I bought "sunshine blowing" supplies. Put the family through some training courses run by a guy that was a professional. I also bought a couple hundred pounds of food. Became a "prepper".There are three million preppers according to mainstream news reports.

With more than 200000 employees, DHS is the third largest Cabinet department,

The Dawn of Martial Law Points To The Crisis of Political Identity In America And The West

A State of Terror: All of America is now Guantanamo Bay

Saman MohammadiPrisonplanet.comMarch 19, 2012

“Most of the epics have a conspiracy theory in them. The Odyssey is all about Odysseus’s attempt to get home and Poseidon’s endless conspiracy to get him stuck on one island or another where he can’t get home from. The Divine Comedy is all about Satan’s conspiracy against God’s plan. So is Paradise Lost. Conspiracy is a constant theme in Shakespeare. The history plays, the tragedies. It reaches the point in Hamlet, where Hamlet has one of the shortest speeches in Shakespeare, “seeming, seeming.” Nobody knows what’s real anymore, there are so many conspiracies going on in Denmark. And, of course, conspiracy is very big in modern literature, even before Illuminatus. It’s in all of Pynchon’s novels. If you read them all, they’re all different aspects of the same gigantic conspiracy, which is never quite identified. Of course, Moby Dick can be regarded as a conspiracy theory because Ahab says be the White Whale principle, or the White Whale agent, I will reap my vengeance upon him. He’s not sure whether the White Whale is the source of malice or the White Whale is just an agent of some supernatural source of malice, but, in either case, the Whale is the visible target. All visible things are but masks, says Ahab. Now, there’s a good motto for a conspiracy theorist: All visible things are but masks. That’s for the more occult conspiracy theories.” – Robert Anton Wilson, from “RAW Explains Everything: Politics and Conspiracy Pt. 2″

The conspiracy to bring America under martial law is slowly coming out into the open. The veil is being lifted because the infrastructure of total control is almost complete and ready to go. All of America is now Guantanamo Bay. It is the largest terror state in history, and it is joined at the hip with Israel, another terror state.

As America collapses, it will bring the whole world down with it. During this descent into hell, the hijacked American government will do everything it can to play the role of the devil.

The demons of tyranny that possess America have been very busy. President Obama’s “Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness,” issued on March 16, 2012, strips American citizens of all rights and protections. It makes them slaves of criminal banks and criminal corporations that hijacked the federal government while the country slept, as Thomas Jefferson warned would happen if “the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency.” Jefferson’s prophetic warning went unheard by most, but not by all.

“When implemented simultaneously with existing laws and Presidential orders, the National Defense Resources Preparedness executive order establishes a clear chain of command and control over all aspects of American life in what can only be described as a police state under martial law.”

The reality that America can be put under martial law at the first moment of crisis, which is most likely to be manufactured by government leaders, can no longer be denied. Government leaders and the media thought police reveal the madness of the Contradictory Totalitarian State that they’ve built and hidden by insisting that America is not being put under martial law while the President signs executive order after executive order that does just that.

“As all Americans know,” said Alex Jones on Sunday, March 18, “across the board, the Bill of Rights and Constitution is being dismantled. Europe is openly under a financial dictatorship of Goldman Sachs and five other banks. The Economist Magazine says that’s a good thing, that they took over via fraud. Obama is completely financed and controlled by these same globalists that run the private, run-for-profit Federal Reserve. And now he is openly implementing martial law in this country. Incriminately, he is carrying out a foreign, corporate coup d’état, a corporate takeover by the crony capitalists that are anti-free market and who are monopoly men.”

America fell victim to the banksters’s tricks and clever propaganda a century ago. Barack Obama is nothing more than a RoboPresident who is following an agenda of global domination by a private cabal of financial oligarchs who put him in office. What was a mysterious plot a century ago is an undeniable reality today. And the world they have created by their manipulation of America’s economic and military might is one of terror, tension, and tyranny.

II. Stateless: The New Crisis of Political Identity In America And The West

A government that murders its own people, as the American government did on September 11, 2001, ceases to represent the population and becomes its greatest enemy.

Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans are stateless. There are no more nation states. The emergence of the illegitimate global dictatorship marks the death of sovereign and democratic countries. Representative government is history. In the new global societal landscape there is an international lawless political elite, and slaves who have no rights, no economic security, and no voice in the government.

President Obama and his international banking masters can only accelerate the creation of their new dark age of neo-feudalism by terrorizing the American and global public with an endless war, and using naked force to suppress critics and dissenters.

Since 9/11, we have all been terrorized to death by U.S. and Israeli leaders. We exist in the state of political limbo, caught between two worlds, one whose death has yet to be announced by the criminal authorities, and another whose birthing process has been assisted with state terrorist events, illegal wars, economic depressions, and other engineered crises.

The American Congress and Canadian Parliament have been systematically destroyed by the treacherous North American political and economic elite. They are plundering America, Canada, and Mexico in the name of free trade. But these vultures are not law-abiding capitalists, who actually create wealth. They are fascist financial terrorists who seize national assets and public wealth, and disguise their looting by calling it bailouts and economic restructuring.

We are supposed say goodbye to our rights, our democracies, and our countries, and thank the treacherous officials and politicians who have constructed a global political state that answers to no one and shields them from justice.

Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told the Senate that the U.S. military is loyal to the will of NATO and the UN, not the will of the American people, and then put an exclamation mark on his controversial statements by demanding that American soldiers not be armed while he lectured them on war and peace in a tent in Afghanistan.

It is obvious that Panetta, Obama, and the highest officials in the U.S. government are not loyal to the United States of America, the American people, and the American military. They are traitors who work for the private banks.

The United Nations does not represent the collective will of the people of the planet, but the private will of global private mega-banks and fascist multinational corporations that have plundered most countries on the face of the earth. So the UN is a totally illegitimate and illegal global political institution. It is not concerned with the rule of law and human rights, but with forced population reduction, financial robbery, and political enslavement.

ORWELL 1984 "RELOADED": The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center

by James Bamford

Global Research, March 19, 2012wired.com

Photo: Name Withheld; Digital Manipulation: Jesse Lenz

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as “the principle,” marriage to multiple wives.

Today Bluffdale is home to one of the nation’s largest sects of polygamists, the Apostolic United Brethren, with upwards of 9,000 members. The brethren’s complex includes a chapel, a school, a sports field, and an archive. Membership has doubled since 1978—and the number of plural marriages has tripled—so the sect has recently been looking for ways to purchase more land and expand throughout the town.

But new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers’ own temple and archive, a massive complex so large that it necessitated expanding the town’s boundaries. Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol.

Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshippers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing, and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world’s telecommunications networks. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors.

The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever.

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”

For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in size as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpose of preventing another surprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliations in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks—the first World Trade Center bombing, the blowing up of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and finally the devastation of 9/11—some began questioning the agency’s very reason for being. In response, the NSA has quietly been reborn. And while there is little indication that its actual effectiveness has improved—after all, despite numerous pieces of evidence and intelligence-gathering opportunities, it missed the near-disastrous attempted attacks by the underwear bomber on a flight to Detroit in 2009 and by the car bomber in Times Square in 2010—there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created.

In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret.

On Friday, March 16, Obama issued another unconstitutional executive order. The National Defense Resources Preparedness EO allows the government to confiscate your property without due process under the direction of Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security.

Obama’s EO allows the president to “take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements” in the event of a “potential threat to the security of the United States.”

Obama’s latest EO demonstrates once again that the executive will continue to violate the Constitution, in particular Article I, Section 1, which states: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

Clinton’s 12919 followed a number of earlier executive orders allowing the government to steal your property – and also force you to be a slave laborer – during a vaguely declared “national emergency.” The government has given itself the authority to seize all communication (from television stations to CB radios), confiscate all food resources (including farms and farm equipment), take control of all transportation (including your family car), and compel you at gunpoint “under federal supervision” to work as a slave.

National Defense Resources Preparedness is a textbook example of fascism. It allows the government to steal privately owned property and publicly owned infrastructure and hand it over to its preferred corporate partners under the guise of a national emergency: “(b) provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes, when taking actions under sections 301, 302, or 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, 2092, 2093; and (c) sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government and installed under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to the owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities.”

Fascist philosopher and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used his principle of a “nation in arms” to steal private property from citizens. Obama’s latest EO declares the right to do the same. Mussolini devised fascist corporatism – the philosophy of the “corporative state” – and Obama under the direction of his Goldman Sachs and transnational corporate and bankster controllers has updated this corporate-statist doctrine, including the ability to steal privately earned and held wealth under the pretense of a national emergency.

Martial Law

Previous administrations installed the groundwork for Obama’s authoritarian move. Under Reagan, executive agencies were granted sweeping emergency powers to not only grab infrastructure and private property, but also round up citizens and put them in concentration camps and force them into slave labor brigades.

During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.”

Obama’s NDAA was established to provide the legal mechanism for tasking the military to round up activists and others targeted by the government. Prior to the NDAA, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and other related programs, the government devised Rex 84 and in particular Operation Garden Plot, an operational plan to use the Army, USAF, Navy, and Marine Corp. in direct support of civil disturbance control operations. It has since added numerous elements under the rubric of Continuity of Government, the overall war on terror, civil disturbance and emergency response.

The Artificial Birth of The Planetary Security State: Myth, Ritual, And Symbolism In The Global War on Terror

Evil stares humanity in the face from inside the dark depths of Washington D.C.

Saman MohammadiPrisonplanet.comMarch 25, 2012

“Reason is judgment which accords with the scale of values incorporated by the Creator in creation, and Satan has repudiated all–values, Creator and creation. His judgment accords only with his own pride and self-deceit, as we have already observed in his falsifying view of God, man, and nature. Thus God the Father describes the demonic revolt as a revolt from reason: the fallen angels

‘. . .reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law, and for their King Messiah, who by right of merit reigns.’ (VI, 41-43) (Milton’s Paradise Lost)

"Reason, in Milton, is repeatedly linked with freedom. True liberty, Michael tells Adam, 'with right reason dwells Twinn’d, and from her hath no dividual being' (XII, 84-85). Love, reason, freedom: the three are indissolubly connected, and Satan fell from all three. 'Freely we serve, Because we freely love,' says Raphael, 'in this we stand or fall, and some are fall’n' (V, 538-41). Satan and God agree in this, if in nothing else, that 'freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell' (III, 102)." – Roland Mushat Frye. "God, Man, And Satan: Patterns of Christian Thought and Life in Paradise Lost, Pilgrim’s Progress, and the Great Theologians.” Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey. 1960. Pg. 34.

The creation of a global fascist government by stealth, terror, and deception has been an ongoing historical process that is entering its final stages. Since 2001, the process of global political transformation has advanced speedily in the shadows of history, concealed from public view by the global state-corporate media. This radical and militarist process of global domination is tied to the illegitimate and Machiavellian global war on terror, which is evil at the core.

The global war on terror is not a war against terrorists, but a genocide of democratic values, sovereign nation states, and innocent human beings. The war’s reasoning rests on false intellectual foundations and is completely devoid of morality and honour. U.S., Israeli, and Western officials have justified their insane aggressive global war by brainwashing their populations with fear and making baseless accusations against the nations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, and others.

II. Masking State Terror: Brand Psychology, War Propaganda, Cultural Legends, And Children’s Fairy Tales In The U.S. National Security State’s Version of History.

The official history of the war on terror is a farce. The 9/11 attacks, the hunt for Al-Qaeda, the reasons for the Iraq War, the death of Pat Tillman, and the official announcement of Bin Laden’s mysterious death, are all war propaganda, political myths, and children’s fairy tales. These events do not hold up to scrutiny. They are myths and legends.

The real history of the war on terror has been documented in great detail in the Internet wilderness by researchers, scholars, authors, and citizen-journalists from around the world.

“Now what is the most important thing in defense integration to keep that economy running? Your Enemy. How are you going to work that system without an enemy? The Soviet Union is a more important part of America than Maine or North Dakota. We could loose those states and really be fine, but, if we lost our enemy, we’d collapse. So the basic system is to terrorize your enemies. Scare them and then use their aggressive behavior as prima-facie evidence that you need to beef up your defense industry. So you take a tiny little country like Nicaragua and you say we are threatened by it. They are going to be launching missiles. Terrify them so they have to declare marshall law and say the Americans are invading. Then they erode their civil liberties and you say, 'Aha! See, they are eroding their civil liberties. They’re a military state.' That now entitles us to build up our troops and get ready to invade Nicaragua. It’s a marvelous, perfectly closed, loop what in cybernetics is called a recursive system: Terrorize your enemy. Use their aggressive response to stimulate your own system and as you stimulate your own system that reinforces step one. It’s a perpetual mobius strip of economic development where the more you do to him, the more it encourages the economy and the more it goes into its trillion dollar runaway.

"It’s the same thing with terrorism. We live in an informational society on a planetary scale. Who really understands that? Terrorists and rock stars. They know that the culture is information. They know that you have to manipulate information and that everything is appearance. Now what helps stimulate terrorists? The media, of course. Focusing all that attention stimulates them enormously. Between them there’s an unconscious collusion, a funny cops and robbers game, where reporters are journalists and members of civilization and good guys, and terrorists are a threat to civility and everything that’s decent. Yet, like continent and ocean, they are symbiotically feeding one another. Terrorists understand that, but we don’t quite understand it yet because we’ve been trained to think in terms of matter separated as objects in vacant containing space. We think, here are the good guys and there are the bad guys. We don’t understand this collusion with our enemy, and we don’t understand how negation is a form of emphasis.

"If we went back to the Old Testament, we could read in Genesis where it says, 'Hey Adam, you see that red, juicy, luscious apple there? Don’t eat it.' Now that is a negation that’s a form of emphasis. The Almighty, being omniscient and very smart, clearly knows that He has put the idea of eating the apple into Adam’s head and, of course, what is Adam going to do but eat it and blame it on somebody else – project it onto his intuitive side. So, businessmen will make money and then project their sentimentality onto their wives, or America will have all this imperialistic behavior and project it on the Russians. To get beyond this, the unconscious has to be drawn into our own consciousness.”

Thompson’s last sentence is the most important, because it points to the reality of how the American and Israeli terrorist states psychologically manipulate the global collective mind to legitimize their destabilizing policies against innocent nations, while stigmatizing 9/11 truth-tellers.

The issue of consciousness is at the heart of the 9/11 events and the 9/11 debate. The mainstream media works like a machine in its suppression of the political unconscious, public consciousness, and the dark side of America’s militaristic state. The general public, regardless of partisan political loyalties, is also like a machine, but unlike the media it is a machine that is not self-aware of itself.

The label “conspiracy theory” is used as a psychological crutch that makes it easier for people to suppress the reality of evil in the U.S. government, and avoid doing what psychologist Carl Jung advised, which is to integrate the shadow side of life into our conscious and face the darkness of existence. 9/11 truth deniers don’t even entertain the idea that 9/11 was an inside job because they say that holding such knowledge puts them in a dark space emotionally and psychologically. This is a child’s response to the reality of evil.

Psychologists for 9/11 truth will play one of the biggest roles in the coming years in helping the American, Israeli, and Western public come to terms with what happened on September 11, 2001. The video, “Psychologists on coping with 9-11 truth,” provides a small showcase of how professional psychologists can use their expertise to help individuals to overcome the mental barriers and face the truth that powerful elements within the U.S. and Israeli governments were responsible for the 9/11 atrocity.

III. The Mass Rejection of Official Narratives, State Imposed Myths, And The Established Meaning of History.

Hollywood, Washington, and Tel Aviv, the cultural myth makers and political rule makers, have used their power to brainwash the American mind and keep America in a state of perpetual war with the rest of the world, joined side by side with Israel. Stephen Lendman described both America and Israel as “sham democracies,” in a recent article called, “America and Israel: Modern Day Spartas.” He added: “They tolerate none at home or abroad. How can they when wars define their existence. They’re not for noble aims, national security or self-defense. They’re about advancing imperial dominance and tolerating no dissent.”

The imperial elite in America and Israel are filled with hubris so they are not about to give up their power and control over human consciousness, Western memory, and global politics. But their power is not unbreakable. In fact, it is very weak. Their power is rooted not in justice, truth, and morality, but in violence, lies, and terror. The state imposed myths in their war on terror are collapsing. Their psychological enslavement of the American and global mind has been challenged and opposed from day one.

As a result of the global psychological opposition to the evil war on terror, there is a crisis of unity in our societies. The breakdown of the 9/11 myth has created a very deep psychological divide between the leadership and the population of the West, and of Israel. In this state of society, the economic and political establishment are emotionally separated from the people to such a high degree that they view themselves as a different species. The mass of humanity has been dehumanized by the sociopathic elite to the point that it is considered and treated as a disease that has to be systematically terminated out of existence.

Given this radical reality, there are only two social and political outcomes: violent repression, or global revolution. Under the American-Western-Israeli elite, the violent repression of the world population includes policies of genocide, the strategy of divide and conquer, state terrorism, engineering an economic collapse and world war, illegal imprisonment of political activists, media brainwashing of the world, systemic surveillance of society, food control, health control, and financial control. Such despotic control can only be exercised by a global elite through a scientific infrastructure of a new planetary security state.

“Our brain is domineering when it comes to coping with reality. We sometimes see things not as they really are, sometimes invent categories that do not exist and sometimes fail to see things that are really there. There are people who have never seen or heard of an aircraft and will not be able to imagine it and a real airplane overhead will be distorted in their minds, creating alternative realities.

"To recognize that what we call reality is only a consensus reality (only what we have agreed to call reality) is to recognize that we can perceive only what we can conceive. Captain Cook’s ship was invisible to the Tahitians because they could not conceive of such a vessel. Joseph Pearce explains this best: 'Man’s mind mirrors a universe that mirrors man’s mind.'" – Bharati Sarkar, “Consciousness – Our third eye.”

“Remember: those who are at the top of the heap will always take whatever steps are necessary to maintain the status quo. It is obvious that they cannot completely control the propagation of the information. So, how do they 'keep secrets?' They don’t. Everything is right out there in the public domain. Anybody who wants to can do the research we have done and come to the realizations we have in this process. BUT, not everyone is able to withstand the OTHER weapon of Mass Control: the fear of being labeled a 'suspected or potential supporter' in a world where the Grand Inquisitor has total control over life and death.” – Laura Knight-Jadczyk, “Mass Mind Control?”

Before the CIA and NSA decided it was a good idea to invade your home without your knowledge to spy on you with advanced appliances, smart phones, computers, and other electronics, they invaded your mind to manipulate your understanding of reality and history, especially of epochal events like the JFK assassination and the 9/11 attacks.

It is disturbing to know that the CIA has been inside the public mind for half a century, and is now using its unthinkable technological capabilities to invade private homes to document and categorize each individual’s behavioural patterns, lifestyle choices, information preferences, and daily habits.

Of course, state surveillance spooks cannot track and data-mine every space of information in this vast social ocean that we call the virtual world. But, that problem can be managed because the sharks of the state don’t need to be aware of the entire environment to strike fear in the fishes and other creatures. Just the fact that sharks are buzzing around is enough to make any thinking fish freeze and adapt his thoughts, views, opinions, and patterns in order to placate the sharks’ appetite for domination and total control.

The thoughtless fishes don’t realize that predatory sharks of the totalitarian state are hunting them to trap them in their net of surveillance and eventually kill them. But it isn’t their fault that they’re not aware of this frightening social environment because the CIA has uses its powerful state and private resources to deny them of this life-sustaining mental awareness. The CIA is conducting a covert war on human consciousness, and the false flag 9/11 attacks was its greatest propaganda victory in this unusual war.

The U.S. National Security State’s war on human consciousness includes its suppression of free energy, free thought, and free exchange of ideas. A vast array of human knowledge and human history is kept hidden from the global public by CIA spies in the American and global media.

But the suppression of information and historical reality is just one technique that the CIA has mastered since its murder of the President JFK. Its greatest mind control technique is also the most ancient: fear. Since 9/11, the fear of Islam and of mysterious terrorists has defined the public imagination of America, Israel, and the West.

How does the daily bombardment of Al Qaeda related concepts and images, funnelled into the Western news chain and on network TV, affect the human mindset?

Al Qaeda concepts, repeated ad nauseam have potentially traumatic impacts on the human mind and the ability of normal human beings to analyze and comprehend the “real outside World” of war, politics and the economic crisis.

What is at stake is human consciousness and comprehension based on concepts and facts.

With Al Qaeda, however, there are no verifiable “facts” and “concepts”, because Al Qaeda has evolved into a media mythology, a legend, an invented ideological construct, used as an unsubtle tool of media disinformation and war propaganda.

Al Qaeda constitutes a stylized, fake and almost folkloric abstraction of terrorism, which permeates the inner consciousness of millions of people around the World.

Reference to Al Qaeda has become a dogma, a belief, which most people espouse unconditionally.Is this political indoctrination? Is it brain-washing? If so what is the underlying objective?

People’s capacity to independently analyse World events, as well as address causal relationships pertaining to politics and society, is significantly impaired. That is the objective!

The routine use of Al Qaeda to generate blanket explanations of complex political events is meant to create confusion. It prevents people from thinking.

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Chossudovsky’s most important point is that human consciousness is at stake. The CIA, Mossad, MI6, and other intelligence agencies around the world that have successfully invaded the global public mind through covert information and psychological operations are waging a war on the human mind. They are enemies of humanity, and enemies of human evolution.

Thus, for humanity to evolve and prosper, the CIA, MI6, and Mossad must be brought to justice. Also, the media companies that are cooperating with these agencies to suppress the truth about 9/11 and other evil events must also be brought to justice. They are suppressing information that will enlighten and awaken the people of the Western world to regain their rightful power over their governments.

These evil intelligence agencies and media companies are holding back humanity by brainwashing the global public with fear and lies. The education and enlightenment of all members of the planet is necessary not just for the prosperity of the species, but for its very survival.

There are informed people around the world who believe that the world is on the verge of a nuclear world war, which will be triggered by an American-Israeli attack on Iran within the next 12 months.

If such a tragic outcome comes to pass, we’ll know who to blame: the CIA, Mossad, MI6, the banksters’s military-industrial complex, and the global mainstream media that has systematically suppressed the truth about the 9/11 attacks and the real reasons for the Global War on Terrorism.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. — Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here. (1935)

In the spring of 2003, ex-corporate executive and political scientist Lawrence W. Britt published an essay in Free Inquiry magazine entitled “Fascism Anyone?” In his work, Britt examined the traits of the two governments that formed the original historical model for fascism, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and five other protofascist regimes that imitated that model, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. He identified 14 characteristics that were common to all of them.

These traits have since been widely accepted as the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

Nearly three generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, all of these regimes have been overthrown, but fascism’s principles can still be found in many nations. History tends to repeat itself because many leaders and nations fail to learn from history, or they draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm in the world today.

In the U.S., leaders, teachers, media and citizens proudly claim that America is a democratic society with certain freedoms and rights guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution, Bill of Rights and rule of law. But is that really the case?

A close look at the 14 characteristics of fascism in light of what has changed in America in the past few years may raise some questions as to whether or not Americans truly live in a democratic society.

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.

Drive down any street in suburban or small-town America and witness the amount of flags flying, flag stickers on mailboxes, ribbon stickers on vehicles and patriotic tee shirts. Then-Senator Obama was criticized during his 2007 campaign for not wearing the ubiquitous flag lapel pin that many politicians wear. Nearly everyone has heard catchy slogans such as “Freedom isn’t Free,” “God Bless America” and “Support the Troops.” Borderline xenophobia is exemplified when french fries were renamed “freedom fries” in D.C. cafeterias. The fear of “illegals” taking scarce jobs has been written into legislation in states such as Arizona, where failure to carry immigration documents is a crime. Your papers, please?

Pulitzer Winning Reporter: US Being Transformed Into A Gulag By Military Industrial Complex

Slams Lack Of Media Outcry Over Indefinite Detention Law

Steve WatsonPrisonplanet.comApril 3, 2012

An award winning reporter who is suing the Obama administration over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which legislates for the ‘indefinite detention’ of American citizens without trial, is appalled at the lack of media coverage of the issue.

Appearing on RT, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author and Middle East expert Chris Hedges said that the NDAA, otherwise known as the ‘Homeland Battlefield Bill’, is already causing a chilling effect on the work of journalists in the US.

“The NDAA has received very little publicity, including by my former employer The New York Times.” Hedges said.

“It is a piece of legislation that was essentially supported by both political parties. Indeed the sponsors of the Bill are Carl Levin, a Democrat and John McCain, a Republican. There was no outcry within the systems of power itself, and that of course meant there was no outcry within the media, which allows those systems of power to set the parameters of debate.” Hedges added.

The controversial legislation, signed into law by Obama on New Years Eve, allows American citizens to be abducted and held in a detention camp anywhere in the world without trial under section 1031. Although Obama indicated in a signing statement attached to the bill that he would not use it to indefinitely detain American citizens, it was the Obama administration itself that requested the provision be worded so it would apply to US citizens.

The legislation specifically says that any persons deemed to have “substantially supported” al-Qaida and the Taliban and “associated forces” may be incarcerated without trial.

“What’s an associated force?” Hedges rhetorically asked, after explaining that his lawsuit is based around the fact that definitions within the NDAA are extremely, and seemingly purposefully vague.

“It could be any organization on [America's terrorism] list, or lots of other organizations that aren’t on the list that are considered associated forces.” Hedges added.

“This is the problem. I spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent, and when we went through that list, there were 17 groups, including al Qaeda, that I have had, as a reporter, direct contact with. There is no provision in there to protect journalists at all, or anyone. Anybody can be swept up under this.” Hedges urged.

“You don’t want to hand these kinds of powers to the state, because history has shown that, eventually, they will use it.” he added.

“We’ve already seen from the Stratfor email releases, they’ve already [connected Occupy with terrorists],” he said. “Alexa O’Brien, who is one of the plaintiffs, lost her job because after these kind of accusations, U.S. government officials went to her employer and made investigations or queries about her. She was pulled off projects and eventually pushed out of her work. That is an example of the kind of world we are entering if we are not able to strike back against this legislation.”

Hedges also penned a lengthy commentary piece on his opposition to the NDAA this week, providing greater context as to why the legislation represents such an assault on the Bill Of Rights and the Constitution.

“They justify their existence, and their consuming of vast governmental resources, by turning even the banal and the mundane into a potential threat. And by the time they finish, the nation will be a gulag.”

Last week a Federal court in New York heard the opening arguments for a preliminary injunction against the NDAA. Seven plaintiffs, including MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers source Daniel Ellsberg, and author and campaigner Naomi Wolf argued that the US military will and has already undermined any safeguards to American citizens promised by the Obama administration.

The U.S. Department of Human Slavery (DHS) is in the process of turning America into a maximum security prison, as it prepares to wage war against the general population of the United States.

Recently, the slave managers of the DHS bought 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets. There is a lot of speculation about why the DHS has decided to do this. Why are they taking their masks off and showing their true colours? What kind of message are they sending to the American people? And what kind of message are they sending to the politically awakened population? Are they saying, “we are ready for war, and we have enough ammo to last us for many years”?

Are they taking precautionary measures by buying up ammo supplies, hoping to prevent a massive violent insurrection against Washington when the ponzi economy collapses and reality hits home?

Are they prepping for an epic crisis of apocalyptic proportions, to be triggered by them?

Since we are left in the dark about everything by the masters of reality in Washington, we have to rely on guesswork.

When in doubt, we must go with our gut feeling, as the wise lord George W. Bush once said. I’ve read several commentaries analyzing this latest move by the DHS and the general view is one of serious shock, even from politically awakened individuals. Our collective gut feeling is that war preparations are being made against the American people by the DHS, CIA, and White House under the guise of fighting terrorism.

On April 4th, DHS slave master Janet Napolitano exploited the latest false flag terror event in France, saying: ”The recent attack in Toulouse underscores the need … for analytical capabilities and law enforcement capabilities on the ground in every community.” This is called milking terror and drinking the blood of innocents. When she is not sleeping on the job, Napolitano is busy drinking the precious blood of victims of state terrorism.

We can expect future false flag terror events in America which will be used to beef up the North American totalitarian police state. On April 5th, Paul Joseph Watson reported that in addition to buying hundreds of millions of bullets with taxpayers’ money the DHS, “is also purchasing bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include ‘stop and go’ lights.”

Bullet-proof military checkpoint booths is another sign that the hijacked U.S. government is afraid of the American people. Only agents of a criminal government require military checkpoints and bullet-proof booths. Their aim is not to keep the American people secure from terror, but to keep them, along with the rest of the world, in a state of slavery to the evil international banksters who stole the U.S. government in the dead of night in 1913.

The unjust rulers in Washington think they can manage the divine wrath of their awakening victims, but it is impossible. They cannot escape the judgment of history. They are exposing themselves to be the willing executioners of a criminal totalitarian terrorist state.

But, the wolves of state terror will not go away quietly. Criminal tyrants do not give up power until they are forced to by the people.

Hopefully, the state terror regime in Washington will be toppled by the American people non-violently. If the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street merge into a single movement that is anti-Washington/Wall Street, it will be a force to be reckoned with.

America 2012: The Supreme Court Has Made It Legal For The Police To Strip Search You Any Time They Want

The American DreamWednesday, April 11, 2012

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police in the United States can strip search anyone that they arrest. It doesn’t matter how minor the crime is and it doesn’t matter if they suspect that you have contraband on you or not. The Supreme Court even said that you can be strip searched if you have been arrested for a traffic violation. Any type of arrest will do. Once you are arrested, if the police want to strip off your clothes and see you naked there is not a thing you can do about it. You can read the entire Supreme Court decision right here. Considering the fact that 13 million Americans are put in jail at some point each year, this is a very frightening thing. The notion that we are all “innocent until proven guilty” is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Thanks to the Supreme Court, it is now legal for the police to strip search you any time they want. All they have to do is find some excuse to arrest you. And considering the fact that almost everything is illegal in America, that is not hard to do. America continues to become a very dark place in 2012, and very few people are speaking up in defense of liberty and freedom.

But don’t the police need probable cause before they search you? Aren’t we protected against unreasonable searches by the U.S. Constitution? After all, the 4th Amendment says the following....

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Unfortunately, not even the Supreme Court seems to care much about the U.S. Constitution anymore.

As I have written about previously, in the “new America” you don’t get any rights.

Instead, the government gives you a limited number of “privileges” that it can revoke at any time.

The story of the man that was at the heart of the Supreme Court case mentioned above demonstrates this. His name was Albert Florence and he was arrested for not paying a fine that he had already paid.

But the fact that he was innocent didn’t seem to matter too much to the police. They held him in prison for six days and strip searched him twice. The following is how CNN described what Florence went through after his arrest....

Court records show Florence was subjected to an invasive strip and visual body-cavity search. He was then held for six days in the county lockup before being transferred to a Newark correctional facility, where, he claims, he was subjected to another more intrusive search before being placed in the general prison population.

“It was very disgusting. It was just a bad, bad experience,” he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan recently. “I was just told, ‘Do as you’re told.’ Wash in this disgusting soap and obey the directions of the officer who was instructing me to turn around, lift my genitals up, turn around, and squat.”

Are you upset when you read that?

You should be.

You see, this is how totalitarian governments act. Totalitarian regimes love to dehumanize and humiliate their “detainees” by stripping them naked.

So when we see this kind of behavior by authorities in the United States we should be very concerned.And when we see the U.S. Supreme Court giving the stamp of approval to this kind of activity, we should be sounding the alarm.

In fact, if you are just walking down the street minding your own business or even if you are in your own home doing absolutely nothing the police could still probably arrest you because there are probably about 1000 things that you are not doing that you are supposed to be doing.

And you know what horny police officers all over America are going to be thinking when they hear of this Supreme Court decision.

They are going to be thinking that it is now open season for strip searching beautiful women.

Anyone that does not believe that police are going to do the exact same thing is being delusional.

In fact, we have already seen many examples of this around the country. As I wrote about a while back, one group of female pro-life demonstrators was recently strip searched by police twice. They didn’t do anything wrong and they should have never been arrested, but that didn’t prevent them from being strip searched in front of male police officers.

We have crossed a very dangerous line as a nation.

We have now gotten to the point where sexual humiliation is a standard law enforcement technique.

A recent article by Naomi Wolf detailed how the use of sexual humiliation as a control technique has been steadily increasing in our society in recent years....

Our surveillance state shown considerable determination to intrude on citizens sexually. There’s the sexual abuse of prisoners at Bagram – der Spiegel reports that “former inmates report incidents of … various forms of sexual humiliation. In some cases, an interrogator would place his penis along the face of the detainee while he was being questioned. Other inmates were raped with sticks or threatened with anal sex”. There was the stripping of Bradley Manning is solitary confinement. And there’s the policy set up after the story of the “underwear bomber” to grope US travelers genitally or else force them to go through a machine – made by a company, Rapiscan, owned by terror profiteer and former DHA czar Michael Chertoff – with images so vivid that it has been called the “pornoscanner”.

We have all been told that we must sacrifice personal dignity for the greater good.

We have all been told that “national security” trumps our liberties and our freedoms.

But the further we go down this road, the more we become like communist China, the USSR, North Korea and Nazi Germany.

Senator Frank Church – who chaired the famous “Church Committee” into the unlawful FBI Cointel program, and who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – said in 1975:

“Th[e National Security Agency's] capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. [If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A.] could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.“

Now, the NSA is building a $2 billion dollar facility in Utah which will use the world’s most powerful supercomputer to monitor virtually all phone calls, emails, internet usage, purchases and rentals, break all encryption, and then store everyone’s data permanently.

The former head of the program for the NSA recently held his thumb and forefinger close together, and said:

We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.

So Senator Church’s warning was prophetic.

Spying Began Before 9/11

While you might assume that the NSA’s spying on Americans is a response to 9/11, the government’s illegal spying on Americans actually began before 9/11.

The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

“The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,” plaintiff’s lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. “This undermines that assertion.”

“The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny AT&T’s participation in the alleged NSA program because doing so would cause `exceptionally grave harm to national security’ and would violate both civil and criminal statutes,” AT&T spokesman Dave Pacholczyk said in an e-mail.

Leaked U.S. Army Document Outlines Plan For Re-Education Camps In America

Political activists would be pacified to sympathize with the government

Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comThursday, May 3, 2012

A leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison camps inside the United States.

The document, entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations (PDF) was originally released on a restricted basis to the DoD in February 2010, but has now been leaked online.

The manual outlines policies for processing detainees into internment camps both globally and inside the United States. International agencies like the UN and the Red Cross are named as partners in addition to domestic federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA.

The document makes it clear that the policies apply “within U.S. territory” and involve, “DOD support to U.S. civil authorities for domestic emergencies, and for designated law enforcement and other activities,” including “man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.”

Aside from enemy combatants and other classifications of detainees, the manual includes the designation of “civilian internees,” in other words citizens who are detained for, “security reasons, for protection, or because he or she committed an offense against the detaining power.”

Once the detainees have been processed into the internment camp, the manual explains how they will be “indoctrinated,” with a particular focus on targeting political dissidents, into expressing support for U.S. policies.

The re-education process is the responsibility of the “Psychological Operations Officer,” whose job it is to design “PSYOP products that are designed to pacify and acclimate detainees or DCs to accept U.S. I/R facility authority and regulations,” according to the document.

The manual lists the following roles that are designated to the “PSYOP team”.

- Identifies malcontents, trained agitators, and political leaders within the facility who may try to organize resistance or create disturbances.

- Provides loudspeaker support (such as administrative announcements and facility instructions when necessary).

- Helps the military police commander control detainee and DC populations during emergencies.

- Plans and executes a PSYOP program that produces an understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.

Remember, this is not restricted to insurgents in Iraq who are detained in prison camps – the manual makes it clear that the policies also apply “within U.S. territory” under the auspices of the DHS and FEMA.

The historical significance of states using internment camps to re-educate detainees centers around the fact that it is almost exclusively practiced by repressive and dictatorial regimes like the former Soviet Union and Stalinist regimes like modern day North Korea.

We have exhaustively documented preparations for the mass internment of citizens inside America, but this is the first time that language concerning the re-education of detainees, in particular political activists, has cropped up in our research.

In 2009, the National Guard posted a number of job opportunities looking for “Internment/Resettlement Specialists” to work in “civilian internee camps” within the United States.

In 2006, KBR was contracted by Homeland Security to build detention centers designed to deal with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S,” or the rapid development of unspecified “new programs” that would require large numbers of people to be interned.

Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was established under the pretext of a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/US border, the same pretense used in the language of the KBR request for services.

During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, however, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.”

A shocking U.S. Army manual that describes how political activists in prison camps will be indoctrinated by specially assigned psychological operations officers contains numerous clear references to the fact that the policies do apply domestically to U.S. citizens.

Despite the fact that the manual is well over 300 pages long and would take hours to read properly, within minutes of posting our story yesterday a minority of commenters were claiming that the policies outlined in the document only pertained to foreign combat operations and did not apply domestically to U.S. citizens.

This is similar to the denial witnessed prior to the passage of the NDAA when some argued that the indefinite detention provisions did not apply to American citizens despite numerous legal analysts asserting they did and President Barack Obama himself acknowledging they did when he signed the bill.

The most alarming portion of the document appears on page 56 and makes it clear that detention camps will have PSYOP teams whose responsibility will be to use “indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes,” as well as targeting “political activists” with such indoctrination programs to provide “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions.”

Let’s make one thing clear – the manual primarily deals with enemy combatants captured and detained in foreign prison camps run by the U.S. Military. However, another thing that is just as clear from reading the manual in full is the fact that it also applies to citizens detained within the United States, whether they be DCs (displaced citizens) or “civilian internees,” in other words citizens who are detained for, “security reasons, for protection, or because he or she committed an offense against the detaining power.”

Firstly, throughout the manual there are scores of references to how the U.S. Army would work together with the DHS, ICE and FEMA (page 24) to implement the policies “within U.S. territory” as part of “civil support operations” in the aftermath of “man-made disasters, accidents, terrorist attacks and incidents in the U.S. and its territories.” (page 38).

“The handling of DCs (displaced citizens) is also a mission that may be performed in support of disaster relief or other emergencies within the United States or U.S. territories during civil support operations,” states page 33. Page 56 also states that it is the responsibility of the PSYOP officer to “control detainee and DC populations during emergencies.”

“Resettlement conducted as a part of civil support operations will always be conducted in support of another lead agency (Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security)” states page 37.

All these passages make it clear that the policies outlined on page 56 are also applicable within U.S. territory as part of “civil support operations” conducted in partnership with domestic federal agencies like the DHS and ICE. The U.S. Immigration authorities have no role in detaining prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq and neither do other U.S. agencies also listed in the document such as the Public Health Service (page 224).

The document also contains numerous references to U.S. citizens (notably pages 13, 41). Page 13 notes how “U.S. citizens will be confined separately from detainees,” meaning they will be separated from foreign prisoners in the camps.

On page 146 of the manual, we learn how prisoners in the camps are to be identified.

“The prisoner’s last name, first name, and middle initial are placed on the first line of a name board, and the prisoner’s social security number is placed on the second line.”

Last time I checked, the United States Social Security Administration was not responsible for handing out social security numbers to people in Afghanistan or Iraq.

On page 193 of the document, we learn that the policies outlined in the manual can be applied domestically. The language makes it clear that so long as the President passes an executive order to nullify Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement, the policies “may be performed as domestic civil support operations.”

The manual states, “These operations may be performed as domestic civil support operations,” and adds that “The authority to approve resettlement such operations within U.S. territories,” would require a “special exception” to The Posse Comitatus Act, which can be obtained via “the President invoking his executive authority.”

These examples are just a handful of a plethora contained in the 326 page ‘Internment and Resettlement’ document which prove that the policies in the manual apply not only to foreign prisoners abroad, but also to American citizens within the United States.

On top of this, we have the 2009 story about how the National Guard posted a number of job listings looking for “Internment/Resettlement Specialists” to work in “civilian internee camps” within the United States.

The time for denial is over. People spent weeks arguing over the ‘indefinite detention’ provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, ignoring assertions by top scholars and legal experts that the kidnapping provisions did apply to U.S. citizens.

It appears as though cognitive dissonance is causing some people to desperately search for any way of denying the shocking truth contained in these Army documents. This is particularly prevalent amongst Democrats and liberals, whose support for the cult of Barack Obama has blinded them to the fact that his administration is passing legislation which in many cases is far more draconian than anything Bush signed into law.

Take this comment for example from the Democratic Underground forum. Linking to our article from yesterday, a user writes, “A friend of mine just posted (as he usually does) a ridiculous article from InfoWars and it’s pissing me off to no end. I’m trying to find stuff to continuously disprove this drivel, and I’m probably wasting my time. Anyone able to help on this particular “story”?”

The individual does not even have the inclination to look at the source document to find out if the story is true, they would rather just throw out ad hominem insults like “ridiculous” and “drivel”. Rather than being “pissed off” at the frightening language contained in the U.S. Army manual, the individual is “pissed off” at Infowars for reporting on it.

Yes, the U.S. Army has really written a manual which details re-education camps. Yes, the manual does apply to U.S. citizens domestically. Denying these manifestly provable facts will not make the threat go away. This is not an imaginary monster under the bed.

Re-Education Camp Manual Includes Rules On Isolating Political Prisoners

Document also describes forced labor

Paul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comMonday, May 7, 2012

A shocking U.S. Army manual that describes how “political activists,” including American citizens, are to be indoctrinated in re-education camps also includes rules on forced labor and separating political prisoners by confining them in isolation.

Aside from detailing how PSYOP teams will use “indoctrination programs to reduce or remove antagonistic attitudes,” as well as targeting “political activists” with indoctrination programs to provide “understanding and appreciation of U.S. policies and actions,” the manual directs political prisoners to be separated from the rest of the camp population.

On page 284, the manual (PDF) describes how “Malcontents, rabble-rousers, trained agitators, and political officers who may attempt to organize resistance or create disturbances within the I/R facility,” are to be confined “in isolated enclosures to deny them access to the general population.”

The document also makes clear that the internment facility is not only a re-education camp but also a forced labor camp. Page 277 of the manual states, “Detainees constitute a significant labor force of skilled and unskilled individuals. These individuals should be employed to the fullest extent possible in work that is needed to construct, manage, perform administrative functions for, and maintain the internment facility.”

Page 69 of the manual notes in a section called ‘Detainee Processing Technique’ that prisoners should first have their weapons confiscated before “silence” is guaranteed by methods to, “Prevent detainees from communicating with one another or making audible clamor….Silence uncooperative detainees by muffling them with a soft, clean cloth tied around their mouths and fastened at the backs of their heads.”

As we have exhaustively documented, all these provisions apply not only to prisoners in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, but also to American citizens domestically, including “civilian detainees” incarcerated for “security reasons, for protection, or because he or she committed an offense against the detaining power,” as part of “domestic civil support operations” involving FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.

The manual details how prisoners will be identified by their “social security number,” another glaring confirmation that the rules apply to U.S. citizens.

The document makes it clear that the rules apply to processing American detainees on U.S. soil so long as the President passes an executive order to nullify Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the U.S. military from engaging in domestic law enforcement.

Although this story has gone viral amongst independent media outlets, the only mainstream news operations to cover it have been Russia Today and Digital Journal. Having studied all the documents, Digital Journal writer Anne Sewell confirms all the points of our original article – that the manual does describe how to re-educate political activists and that its policies do apply to U.S. citizens domestically.

President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional secret ‘kill list’ includes a 17-year-old girl along with several American citizens, according to a New York Times report.

“Mr. Obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret “nominations” process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical. He had vowed to align the fight against Al Qaeda with American values; the chart, introducing people whose deaths he might soon be asked to order, underscored just what a moral and legal conundrum this could be,” reports the NY Times, adding that one of the targets in Yemen is “a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years,” and that “Several were Americans.”

The White House has asserted the right to carry out state-sponsored assassination anywhere in the world without having to provide any evidence or go through any legal process. The administration merely has to state that the target is a terrorist and it doesn’t matter whether they are an American citizen or not, as we saw in the case of American-born Anwar al-Awlaki and his son, who were both killed last year.

During a CBS 60 Minutes interview in January, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta revealed that Obama himself personally approves the policy to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without trial on a case by case basis.

“So it’s the requirement of the administration under the current legal understanding that the president has to make that declaration, not you?” Panetta was asked, to which he replied, “That is correct.”

The fact that the administration is carrying out state-sponsored assassination with absolutely no regard to legal due process in the name of fighting Al-Qaeda is particularly brazen given the fact that the US has backed Al-Qaeda terrorists in both Libya and Syria in the effort to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi and Bashar Al-Assad.

“In the USA, it is illegal to impose executions on people under 18, something that most Democrats would support, I suppose. Yet, their vaunted president, Barack Obama, has declared that a 17-year-old girl is to be gunned down if American spies can find her,” writes Bill Anderson.

“Somehow, I doubt that there will be a peep of protest about that at the Democratic National Convention this summer. And, to make things even more depressing, I’m sure that the Republicans will claim that Obama is “soft on terrorism” and is too “timid” to launch the U.S. Killing Machine in full force. So it has come to this: Washington, D.C., is the new home of Murder, Inc.”

The Council On Foreign Relations, the elite think tank long associated with globalist policy making and subversion of the principles of the US Constitution, has published an article that proposes using the army to plan and carry out domestic law enforcement missions in the US.

An article in the May/June issue of the CFR official journal, Foreign Affairs, calls for the army to address “challenges in the United States itself” with the justification being to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.

The article, written by Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Raymond T. Odierno states:

“Where appropriate we will also dedicate active-duty forces, especially those with niche skills and equipment, to provide civilian officials with a robust set of reliable and rapid response options.”

Odierno suggests that major changes within the US now deem it necessary to use the military in such a way. The General points to “declining budgets due to the country’s worsened fiscal situation”;“a shift in emphasis to the Asia-Pacific region”; and a “broadening of focus from counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and training of partners to shaping the strategic environment, preventing the outbreak of dangerous regional conflicts, and improving the army’s readiness to respond in force to a range of complex contingencies worldwide.”

Odierno suggests that the army be “transitioned” into a more “flexible force” by deploying in situations normally reserved for domestic law enforcement officials. He argues that by doing so, troops will be better equipped to deal with conflict elsewhere.

Odierno also specifically singles out The Army National Guard and the Army Reserve, noting “Today’s army also has an unprecedented level of integration between its active and its reserve components… Our reserve component soldiers are better than they have ever been, and we will dedicate resources to ensure that some of them will be either deployed or ready to deploy around the globe.”

The article presents a red flag to anyone who has followed the consistent push by the federal government to militarize the police and further integrate the armed forces into domestic law enforcement.

Of course, the use of U.S. troops in law enforcement duties is a complete violation of the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act, which substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement unless under precise and extreme circumstances.

Section 1385 of the Posse Comitatus Act states, “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

However, despite the constitutional protections outlined in these laws, there has been and is on ongoing push to blur the divisions between military and domestic law enforcement officials.

Such “invasions” are often reported on as nothing to worry about and even as “cool”.

Indeed, back in 2008 the Washington Post reported how 20,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq would be stationed inside America under Northcom for purposes of “domestic security” from September 2011 onwards.

As Alex Jones exposed back in the late 1990’s, U.S. troops have been training to impose martial law for a considerable amount of time. During numerous urban warfare drills that Jones attended and reported on, troops were trained to raid, arrest and imprison U.S. citizens in detention camps as well as taking over public buildings and running checkpoints. During role playing exercises, actors playing prisoners would scream “I’m an American citizen, I have rights” as they were being dragged away by troops.

Federal authorities in the United States have clearly been preparing for domestic civil unrest for a number of years. The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased a staggering 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets as well as bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include ‘stop and go’ lights.

Agency says it would “further violate” everyone’s privacy if it wasn’t a secret

Steve WatsonInfowars.comJune 18, 2012

The National Security Agency has refused to provide details on its clandestine domestic spying program, as requested by two prominent Senators, suggesting that to do so would violate the privacy of Americans.

The expansion of powers in 2008 eliminated the need for the NSA to have probable cause to intercept any American’s phone calls, text messages or emails.

Now Wired Magazine blog DangerRoom has acquired a letter (PDF) from the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which notes that “NSA leadership agreed that an IG review of the sort suggested would further violate the privacy of U.S. persons.”

The letter, written by I. Charles McCullough, also claims that the NSA, which has as many employees as the FBI and the CIA combined, does not have the man power to collate and reveal such details, and that to attempt to do so would jeopardize the program.

“I defer to [the NSA inspector general's] conclusion that obtaining such an estimate was beyond the capacity of his office and dedicating sufficient additional resources would likely impede the NSA’s mission,” McCullough wrote.

Senator Wyden responded with a statement Monday, noting “All that Senator Udall and I are asking for is a ballpark estimate of how many Americans have been monitored under this law, and it is disappointing that the Inspectors General cannot provide it.”

“If no one will even estimate how many Americans have had their communications collected under this law then it is all the more important that Congress act to close the ‘back door searches’ loophole, to keep the government from searching for Americans’ phone calls and emails without a warrant,” Wyden added.

Describing the NSA’s response as “disappointing and unsatisfactory,” Legal secrecy expert Steve Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, believes it is unacceptable for any intelligence agency to refuse to address such an “entirely legitimate oversight question.”

“If the FISA Amendments Act is not susceptible to oversight in this way,” Aftergood said, “it should be repealed, not renewed.”

“There are certain circumstances where that authority may exist,” said Matthew Olsen the Director of The National Counterterrorism Center.

Wyden and Udall have been pressing the NSA for some time to reveal whether or not the agency is collecting sensitive data on Americans such as cell site data, which would allow for tracking the location of anyone using a cell phone in the US.

Along with Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), Wyden introduced a joint bill last year that would force any government agency to secure a search warrant and show probable cause before tracking the location of any American.

Wyden has consistently expressed concern that the law relating to surveillance is unclear, and is being “secretly interpreted by the executive branch.”

In his statement, Wyden said he objects to the extension of the law because it does not contain protections against warrantless “back door” searches of Americans.

“I believe that there should be clear rules prohibiting the government from searching through these communications in an effort to find the phone calls or emails of a particular American, unless the government has obtained a warrant or emergency authorization permitting surveillance of that American,” he said.

The FISA provision, introduced in 2008, was merely a confirmation of activity that government spy agencies, including the NSA, have been engaging in for years.

The ACLU recently released an infographic (below) detailing how the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program has grown in gargantuan proportions and now intercepts 1.7 billion US electronic communications every single day. Those communications will soon all be funneled through the top secret $2 billion spy center in the Utah desert, which the NSA has refused to provide Congress with details of.

The exercise is part of a U.S. Army program run by military police from Fort Meade, Maryland focused around training MPs from St. Louis how to drive heavily armored tanks “on highways and on city streets.”

Sightings of the tanks prompted hundreds of residents to flood news channel KSDK’s Facebook page, with some expressing fears that martial law had arrived with others promising to “stop and salute” the tanks as they rolled by.

Reporting that he was told by the Army not to disclose the location of where the exercise was operating out of for “security reasons,” KSDK reporter Casey Nolan downplayed the exercise as “not such a big deal.”

U.S. Army Sergeant Cornelius Ivory discouraged citizens from taking video and photographs of the tanks and urged them not to get too close.

“They need to know to stay away from it,” Ivory told KSDK.

The exercise will run from June 21-28 in St. Louis, with the presence of the tanks being most noticeable in the area of the sixth district.

As we have exhaustively documented, the increasing shift towards domestic militarization of law enforcement is part of the acclimation process to get Americans comfortable with the idea of troops and tanks on the streets as a routine occurrence.

Earlier today we reported on how scores of paramilitary troops and soldiers appearing to be from the National Guard were deployed onto the streets of Hartford, Connecticut to break-up a recent annual Puerto Rican-American cultural event.

This is just the latest of scores of examples of how the military and National Guard is increasingly being deployed domestically to target the American people.

An article published in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece for the influential Council on Foreign Relations, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Raymond T. Odierno, advocates the army be “transitioned” into a more “flexible force” by deploying in situations normally reserved for domestic law enforcement officials. He argues that by doing so, troops will be better equipped to deal with conflict elsewhere.

Domestic deployment of troops for purposes of law enforcement is a clear violation of section 1385 of the Posse Comitatus Act, which states, “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”